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Looking for efficient workflow suggestion…
Hey all… I’m trying to find the fastest workflow for this.
I have a long audio file of a jam…
I want to grab “interesting” 4 bar loops out of it as I’m listening…
Right now I just use audio evolution and it’s time snapping, select, export. This works but it’s fiddly.
If koala had the ability to quantize recording start to beats and a fixed length option it would be almost perfect… but it don’t… At least not that I’ve been able to figure out.
AUM can be set to record certain sized quanta, but then it saves them as files that then need to be wrangled.
The “dream” setup would be something like LaunchPad that could sample from longer pieces and automatically place in the launch grid. While you can jump through the import hoops, it’s still fiddly.
Is there a clip launcher like launch pad that can also sample and populate the clips all under one roof? Is that something LK can do? I don’t have the full version so can’t tell..
Figured someone may have a suggestion before I start buying more stuff that don’t work.
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Loopy Pro can do that. If your audio is quantized you can easily capture bits retroactively—I.e. grab the previous 2 or 4 or 8 bars or whatever
Remixlive is very Launchpad(ish) - https://apps.apple.com/app/remixlive-make-music-beats/id1058801458
It's freemium, so I'm sure you'll need some IAP(s)...
Yea, I’ve tried it, but as near as I can tell, my workflow requirement isn’t there…
Basically I’m looking to do something “sample chops” but the source file is something like a 2 hour jam and the “samples” are 4, 8, etc bar loops.
So I may have 10’s or even 100’s of loops I want to pull out of the longer work and populate the grid launcher like remix or LP.
If Koala had a grid snap and quantize it would be awesome, but it don’t and from what I’ve seen said from the devs on the topic it seems antithetical to the design direction.
Hmmm… I was wondering about that. I burned up the free time, and it’s kinda spendy if it’s not what I need… Plus it seems like such a rabbit hole these days with the interface builder etc. But Inhave been meaning to take a look again after all this time.
Plus I’ve been on their forum forever and still only have the OG app so… 🤔
Can you tell us what you've ruled out? What about the usual suspects like NS2/Slate, BM3, DigiStix 2, BeatHawk, iMPC, or the Lauchpad/Blocs Wave combo?
Yes
😂
BlocksWave + LP is close, but it pukes on long files.
The closest I’ve gotten is using a Mozaic script that does live quantizing of triggered pads in KB-1 that are mapped to the pads in Koala… but it’s still a kludge.
I’m pretty sure Loopy is prob gonna be the way to go…
Or just give up on the iPad and use Live…
I imagine a number of apps would puke on a 2-hour recording. Why not just break it down into manageable chunks since you're chopping it up anyway?
A standalone editor that supports drag 'n drop running split screen with a clip launcher that does too. Can't think of any combination that wouldn't blow up on a two hour long file though.
Sounds like a desktop thing if you don't think beating your head against a wall is a useful form of musical expression. You're a drummer tho ... so maybe you do. 😎
(btw, if you haven't already burned up the Loopy Pro seven day free trial, you could test it out. It'd be a waste of the trial period to just use for this one thing though. Better to give it a week where you can put some time into it.)
FWIW, Loopy Pro works fine with long files as it streams from disk.
Not exactly sure what you need…
Have you tried the clip mode in Logic Pro? I mean first month is free…so nothing to try and if it doesn’t erase/unsub.
I think what you want to do is lazy chop….
Elliot garage -SEGMENTS is the answer if that’s what you want
16 slices total tho…IAP for 3 bucks adds 16 more slices and an upgraded stretch engine
Yup, that's basically it, but lazy-chop is typically for "making beats" and this format is just a bit longer/bigger...
Basically, my preferred way of making music is performance based. I build setups (multi-track performance mixer type setups... Real-time manipulation, etc.) that I can "jam" with in a live performance. I don't "do" songs really.
For a while now I've been bringing the jams into AudioEvolution (which is prob. the best "DAW" environment on IOS for me), use the grid-snap to grab 2,4,8, etc. bar sections, use the export to... option and open in LaunchPad so I can then "remix" the better parts of the longer performance. Pretty standard flow I think. The thing that drives me up a wall with AE is every... single... time... you want to export it makes you give the "file" a name... It has to be unique and it doesn't auto-append a suffix (i.e. like (1), (2), (n)). It's just a drag. That's really the only pain point I'm trying to overcome with this question. Not game-stopping obviously. Very "first-world" problem, but if I could find a better workflow on ipad, then cool.
Obviously on a PC/Laptop it's stupid easy in something like Live to select a region and drag to a clip. But I've been consciously trying for the last few years to avoid computers (and yes, stuff like drambo) that offer the tempting siren song of endlessly working on crap, always one more thing to try, what about this? kinda thing that basically burned me out a few years ago.
Segments looks nice, but it also seems to do what Koala does but not as well? Does Segments have grid snap (beats, bars, etc.)? doesn't look like it.
So, in your jams, do you play to a metronome click?
Curious about that myself (as I think we’re talking about jams), cause if not I just “give up on the iPad and use Live…” as well. It’s like a couple of hours work versus a couple of weeks.
On the ipad only stuff, no because it's all sequencer/generator based. And then for the drum stuff you know so well from your amazing help on the mozaic stuff, that's sequencing on the MC707 so there will almost always be some element that's keeping or hinting at time.
AE as a DAW is really only for audio editing.
It was hard to find lazy chop on any iOS offerings smh, even though segments does it right…32 chops may not be enough for what you are wanting to accomplish? Koala and segments are totally different use cases to me…not really the same at all